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Originally Posted by SAB380
They're not going anywhere.
They've been operating like this for near a decade.
Just click through the pages on this forum and enjoy the way back machine.
This is not a rational hobby and not full of rational people 
Arahom is the only one bonkers enough to attempt pieces like Conan: The Sacrifice and Tarzan: Primal Rage. |
I used to say the same thing, but it's different now. They have had a continual decline in what they are doing. Their golden age was 2015 comic con. They were riding high off several really awesome pieces like medusa and queen of Vampires and a handful of other pieces. They had secured the Frazetta license and taken on Ehren as a sculpture. They were launching the comic line and everything looked bright.
Since then a series of bad luck and poor decisions have plagued them. The Frazetta line, though artistically was a success, was a financial nightmare. Statues like Arhian 1 suffered from mass shipping damage. Ares gold was shipped without a switchable head. Delay after delay in getting the product to people increased. Plus their comic line floundered.
They tried a kickstart comic project which failed. Then they lost Ehren to Blizzard. Although they said it was a mutual split, no one who owns a statue company "loses" talent like his unless they have too. ARH didn't have the resources to keep Ehren.
Then Arahom took on role as leed sculptor. Arian 1/3 was his first go, then Arkhalla Fight. At this point business had declined to a point that they could no longer sell enough statues to secure the production in the factories in China so they moved production to their offices... let me say that again... they created a statue factory in their office.
The comics continued to decline... they managed to wrap up Arkhalla and struggled out another issue of Arhian. Astria was dead in the water. The other comic projects like Sha-Ryn and the Mermaid comics, also were dead in the water.
Now they start to produce statues in their home factory. The sales hook is going to be that when you pay for your statue, it ships. No wait. Since then, they have not successfully shipped a single statue. The Valkyrie was to be taken back to design and new molds made. There is no word on the Succubus which is their last Ehren piece, though it's met with very mixed reviews. They made an Eve, but it's listed as sold out... which I very much doubt. Their last factory run piece, Arhian 1:3 was supposed to ship this month and they are still taking orders for it. That means it's at the minimum 3-6 months from production and that's if they even have the money to pay for the production.
On top of that, there last statue shipment was a hot mess. The Sha-Ryn and the Tarzan was delivered with missing parts and features and ARH turned its backs to customers like it did before with Ares.
So... looking at this steady and continued decline in the business, on going and continued failure to deliver product and what a lot of people would label
A criminal treatment of their customers... I'd say that it would be a very impressive feet for ARH to see 2018. And if it doesn't, Arahom only has himself to blame.
